How Can I Get a Ride with Just Cash?

It is possible to get a ride on a riding service using change or simply cash. When we talk about the Uber service, Uber introduced a newly announced electronic payment option within the Uber app while you book your ride.

This feature allows you to use the amount of cash available in your Uber account to pay for the rides you book.

This is valid for Uber products only. The Uber CASH option refers to tangible cash payments for Uber rides.

This is beneficial when you don’t have a credit card or a ATM service that you can easily locate, and it’s much easier to offer the spare cash in your wallet.

You can pay your Uber driver with cash, all you have to do is go to the payment section in your Uber app and select ‘Cash’. This has to be done before requesting a ride. Once the ride has been finished, you can pay with cash to your Uber driver.

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Remember it’s not available everywhere, only in selected markets. It is mentioned at the faq section of Uber here.

It is to keep in mind that, at first, Uber did not accept cash. Six years after Uber’s launch, the company begins to experiment with integrating cash into its payment options.

This meant that in order to reach a wide variety of riders, they felt it necessary to integrate the option of including tangible forms of cash into their payment service.

In May 2015, Uber allowed the cash option into their Uber app payment option in Hyderabad, India, at first.

After witnessing its success, they had extended the choice to 4 more cities in India, and by the end of the year, Uber had completed 1 billion rides.

By 2016 Uber offered the cash payment option to at least 150 cities, and in 2018 the number grew to 400.

Now riders are able to choose the cash option in 51 countries! Uber must have noticed the success rate of including the cash option in their Uber app because it is more accessible for people in rural communities as well.

It is also a more accessible option of payment for most people as the public prefers tangible cash over other forms of payment.

This wise choice has made it easier for most people to use Uber services. It is to be kept in mind that the Uber cash payment option is different from Uber cash.

Uber cash is a separate payment option offered within the Uber app where the users can check out their budget for all the Uber products, from bike-sharing to food delivery, into one account.

To top up the Uber cash account, the users need to transfer money from their debit credit card into the Uber cash account.

Their account can be used across all the local services, but the things that it can’t do is allow the rider to cash out their stored Uber cash values into other payment cards outside the Uber ecosystem.

The Uber cash option is pretty straightforward. All you need to do is open the Uber app on your smartphone and go to the payment section in the top left corner.

After that, select “CASH “as your payment option and request a ride. Before closing the app, you need to pay the amount shown to you to your driver, and you’re good to go.

Of course, the concept of topping up your cash in the Uber app is seen as an extra step for a People and therefore giving the Uber driver a tangible form of cash is the preferred way of payment for most people.

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